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For 11,162 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 56% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 7.6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Hooligan Sparrow
Lowest review score: 0 Followers
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,708 out of 11162
  2. Mixed: 4,553 out of 11162
  3. Negative: 1,901 out of 11162
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  1. K-19: The Widowmaker
    As square-shouldered as you'd expect of a National Geographic co-production. But Bigelow hits all her marks and more within the narrow parameters.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee
    Fight footage is kept to a minimum; in this film, the boxer's best one-two's don't hit inside the ring. Clay's ingenious hype-baiting moxie drives the first half, cut to a nouvelle pop beat.
  3. Mickey Blue Eyes
    The last half hour bogs down badly, with a cynical fake-out ending and a final scene that borders on non-sensical.
  4. That's My Face
    The movie might test your tolerance for the mystical, but its whispery vagueness is of a piece with the luxuriantly grainy atmospherics.
  5. The Cat's Meow
    A better-than-competent period evocation that allows the director to flaunt his knowledge (and perhaps vent some of his own bitterness) regarding Hollywood.
  6. Suddenly
    A humane, unassumingly quirky rumination on chance and caprice.
  7. The Trench
    The acting, by a large cast of little-known young Brits chewing on South London accents like dog bones, is uniformly splendiferous.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy
    In a way, the porn legend seems to have cut a tragic Faustian deal. He's always wanted to be a mainstream actor.
  9. Scottsboro: An American Tragedy
    Goodman and Anker adroitly shape a cohesive drama out of a complicated history.
  10. Beautiful Creatures
    Dorothy and Petula leave a bloodier trail than Thelma and Louise did.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    On the Ropes
    Burstein and Morgen take all this in from an unobtrusive middle distance, letting the subjects themselves slowly complicate the profusion of athletic and ghetto-real clichés that fly scattershot in the early going.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Portraits chinois
    The performances are uniformly strong.
  13. The Luzhin Defence
    John Turturro, who, given the most romantic role of his career, fully inhabits the ungainly Luzhin.
  14. Fast Food Fast Women
    In his film's better moments, Kollek makes us laugh at these visions while also revealing their grace and frailty.
  15. Downtown 81
    Doesn't dawdle and, despite some eye-rolling dialogue, is a generally amiable time-trip.
  16. Pola X
    This moody, rapturous adaptation of Pierre, Herman Melville's gothic follow-up to "Moby Dick," is never less than seriously romantic.
  17. The Best Man
    Everything about the film is familiar except that the twentysomethings are all African American.
  18. Lies
    At once distanced and heedless, Lies manages to be lighter and less pretentious than any description suggests. The movie's playful aspect can't be denied.
  19. Abschied - Brechts letzter Sommer
    Marvelously grizzled and tender, Josef Bierbichler's Brecht wheezes and grumbles through it all.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Scratch
    Scratch's strongest moments are the live performance sequences, where hip-hop becomes an ultra-rhythmic spiritual experience, with roots in West African trance ritual and South Bronx gang solidarity.
  21. The Minus Man
    Less interesting for what it has to say about evil -- namely, that it's banal/unknowable/random/everywhere -- than for the microsurgical procedures it performs on genre conventions and expectations.
  22. Shanghai Ghetto
    The storytelling is eloquent and genuine, but the Manns' unadventurous approach (compared to, for instance, last year's intimate road movie "Fighter") rarely hits emotional pay dirt.
  23. Dark Days
    Singer achieves remarkable intimacy with his subjects.
  24. A Room for Romeo Brass
    So low-key it could be mistaken for a throwaway. But Meadows's understanding of childhood fears and fantasies and the yearning, heartfelt performances he draws from his two young actors should not be underestimated.
  25. Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story
    Manages to have its cake and eat it too -- debunking the Berlin image even while reveling in it.
  26. Southpaw
    Barrett's trajectory is exciting, but his tribe is hilariously, dryly Irish about the experience.
  27. One Week
    By turns whimsical and painful.
  28. The Last September
    The film's pathos lies not with people who have justice on their side, but with those who don't know where they belong.
  29. Family Fundamentals
    Compassionately explores the seemingly irreconcilable situation between conservative Christian parents and their estranged gay and lesbian children.
  30. Standing in the Shadows of Motown
    Justman's affectionate doc provides the pleasure of hearing one classic pop hook after another performed by a still tight unit, as well as the spectacle of veteran sidemen sitting around talking music. (The movie would have benefited from more period footage and fewer restaged scenes.)
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